Here's a handy guide to check yourself against; which way do you display/store/shelve your #Books?
I have so many that I fit a number of different categories depending on which part of he house you're in.... I doubt I'm alone in my pluralist shelving habits
There's that word 'curated' in the article. Unless you work professionally in a museum or art gallery, it's a pretentious attempt to lend intellectual rigour to tidying things up.
@riggbeck@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon Can be a legitimate usage of the word, if your content is commentary on someone else's content rather than purely original.
@SteveClough@riggbeck@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon I feel your pain. On the other hand, I listen to several podcasts that discuss language and old words. Don't know for sure how many words used to mean something else, but if someone determined it was over half of 'em, I can't say I'd be surprised. Or amazed, per the old Noah Webster joke. 🙂
Words For Granted - specifically an etymology podcast
And... Looked through my 300 or so subscriptions, couldn't find others by title. I recall @grammargirl Mignon Fogarty's podcast was often good for that, but I can't recall the title. Others cover word usage piecemeal sometimes, so no help there.
Betting Ms Fogarty would have better suggestions for podcasts about changes in word usage, nu?
@grammargirl@bookstodon I read the LinkedIn article over, and I respect his views. But a million years ago someone pointed out dictionaries don't contain definitions (they're not definitive...), they contain usages. As with most things I "know," I got it from one source and don't recall what the source was. 🙂
Curate is fine with me. Reveal, well... Used to watch a lot of home remodeling shows, so, needs must when the Devil drives.
Thanks, Mignon! And if anyone wants to dive REALLY deeply into the question of language change, there's always "The History of English" by Kevin Stroud. Meticulous and fascinating!
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon My fiction books are haphazardly squeezed into an insufficient amount of bookshelf space, some upright and some on their side and some on top of others, very roughly alphabetised. But the one thing I do insist upon is that they are stored upside down until I've read them.
Non-fiction are scattered around all sorts of storage spaces, wherever I have room. I try to keep broad subjects together. But how I organise them within that changes all the time. Do I sort history books by author or subject? Is a civil war history book military history, political history, British history, or its own genre? And so on. I keep changing my mind.
@RolloTreadway@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon The last time we moved -- almost 15 years ago -- we re-shelved books in a somewhat organized way, but since then it's been "oh, yeah, I pulled that out a while ago, it's now on the cookbooks shelf."
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon Categories in a rough sense. Off the top of my head, British history, Japanese history, Black history, sports, fiction, with fiction authors clumped together but not alphabetical. There'll be other randomness - I've never really organised music books, for example.
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